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A Family’s Struggle for Justice
Devin Dyer, an 18-year-old Austin resident, was shot to death at a party on March 6, 2011. His parents and uncle are still trying to piece together how he spent the last moments of his life nearly three years later. Sonya Burks, Devin’s mother, said she doesn’t feel any sense of urgency from the Chicago […]
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Lissette Cruz bends over a piece of Puerto Rican history. Using her hands she breaks small pieces of colored stones, tiles or glass, and then glues them into unique designs. She fills the gaps in between the pieces with grout and wipes off the excess with a sponge. She is creating vejigante and petroglyph mosaics. Vejigante is […]
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Read/Write Library, a Chicago nonprofit entirely driven by volunteers, invites artists, illustrators, and designers to submit their work to help with a unique fundraiser. But first a couple things about the Read/Write Library. It’s the brainchild of Nell Taylor, and it’s located at 914 N. California (enter on Walton.) It has an online catalog, however, […]
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Santa better make sure that he packs a big bag of whistles on his sleigh this year because the referees who officiated the Roosevelt/Saint Xavier University men’s basketball game Thursday (Dec. 19th) night, wore theirs out. Seeking its first ‘signature’ win of the year against a ranked opponent, Roosevelt (Lakers) spent the majority of the […]
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The one thing you don’t commonly find in today’s sports world is active athletes who are gay. The first athlete to ever come out while still active was NBA center Jason Collins in late April 2013. He came out voluntarily in an interview with Sports Illustrated and has since become somewhat of an icon of […]
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News, ideas and trends spread more quickly today than ever thanks to the widespread use of the Internet. Especially in the fashion world, this has changed the way corporations operate. When consumers can live-stream New York fashion week from home, they want the physical manifestations of new trends delivered to them as quickly as possible. […]
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America’s obsession with zombies and the idea of a zombie apocalypse has been on a rise since George Romero’s 1968 “Night of the Living Dead”. With the popularity of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead graphic novels and its subsequent television adaption and books like Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z by Max Brooks, the fascination […]
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